habitat_narrative
Terrestrial
Partially fossorial and known to inhabit old termitaria in grassland habitat. Most of its range is at moderately high altitudes, reaching 1,800 m in Mpumalanga and Swaziland, but it is also found at elevations as low as about 100 m in KwaZulu-Natal (De Waal 1978; Branch 1988, 1998; Jacobsen 1989; Broadley 1990; Bourquin 2004; Marais 2004).